SharePoint 2010’s Secure Store Service provides a way to map credentials and delegate access to remote resources. You may already be familiar with the MOSS 2007 Single Sign-on Shared Service, which was the former equivalent. The Secure Store Service integrates seemlessly with Business Connectivity Services (BCS), but it also features an API that can be… Read More »
I just wrapped up a custom implementation of a faceted search web part that uses the MOSS Full Text Sql Query API. During the development, I ran into issues querying certain multi-valued Managed Properties, specifically Skills and Interests. In my query, I was using the CONTAINS predicate like such: SELECT UserProfile_GUID, PreferredName, JobTitle, Department, WorkPhone,… Read More »
*** This article is a must read for any developer reading or writing Web (Site) properties *** If you haven’t already noticed, there are two different API properties on the SPWeb class - AllProperties (a Hashtable) and Properties (a PropertyBag). Apparently the AllProperties is meant to replace Properties, but Properties was left in place for… Read More »
Greg Galipeau wrote a thorough post on cleaning up your Web Part Gallery that is the basis for this post. To summarize, Greg shares a Feature Receiver he uses as a generic Feature Receiver for all his WebPart Features that simply removes the WebPart having the same name as the Feature’s DisplayName when the Feature… Read More »
If you are writing SharePoint feature receivers often, you will find there are several lines of code common to just about every feature receiver: A cast of properties.Feature.Parent to the appropriate scope (either SPWeb, SPSite, SPWebApplication, or SPFarm) Empty implementations of FeatureInstalled and FeatureUninstalling Provided below is an abstract generic class that now serves as… Read More »
I just finished delivering a SharePoint workflow application in which I developed what could be called a start to framework that I would like to reuse in my next project. The framework currently has many features such as: An “Object-List Mapping” infrastructure complete with lazy initialization of objects and collections, converters, and caching A list… Read More »
Seeing this? The security validation for this page is invalid. I am sure this error has good intentions, but it is showing its face far too often. Hristo Pavlov has written a good explanation on AllowUnsafeUpdates here. If you read my previous post and are attempting to update list items as the System User, you… Read More »